December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
1232 pages
56h 38m
English
F=h
Some delivery agents, such as those that
deal with files, require that the recipient’s
hostname be left as is. The hostname portion of the
recipient’s address is ordinarily converted to
lowercase before being tucked into $h. Specifying
the F=h delivery agent flag tells
sendmail to not convert that address to
lowercase.[30]
The $h sendmail macro ($h) is usually used with the
A= delivery agent equate of a delivery agent. For
example:
Muucp, P=/usr/bin/uux, F=msDFMhuU, A=uux - -r $h!rmail ($u)
↑noteHere, the h in F=msDFMhuU tells
sendmail to leave the $h
alone and not to convert the hostname in that
sendmail macro to lowercase.
[30] This delivery agent flag was added specifically to handle the UUCP host named Shasta at Stanford University.
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